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Erasmus ROCKET Teacher Training

Overview: Conflict Transformation & RPGs – Core

Welcome to our module Conflict Transformation & RPGs – Core! In this module, we will connect conflict transformation and role-playing games.

Activities:

  • Conflict Styles
  • Elements Conflict Styles Inventory — Employees — Evocative Games AB
  • Connecting RPGs and Conflict Transformation
  • Discussion 4: Conflict Transformation & RPGs (optional)

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Recommended materials:

You will choose which ones to read in the item “Connecting RPGs and Conflict Transformation.”

Englund, Tindra. 2014. “Live Action Role Play (Larp) in a Context of Conflict: An Ethnographic Study of Larp in Ramallah.” Thesis, Malmö University. Link here.

Kemper, Jonaya. 2020. “Wyrding the Self.” In What Do We Do When We Play?, edited by Eleanor Saitta, Johanna Koljonen, Jukka Särkijärvi, Anne Serup Grove, Pauliina Männistö, and Mia Makkonen, 211-225. Helsinki, Finland: Solmukohta.
Available at Nordiclarp.org linked here.

Leonard, Diana J., Jovo Janjetovic, and Maximilian Usman. 2021. “Playing to Experience Marginalization: Benefits and Drawbacks of ‘Dark Tourism’ in Larp.” International Journal of Role-Playing 11: 25-47. Link here.

Yamamoto, Mahisa. 2021. “A Case Study on Effective Scenario Writing and Session Management Employing Call of Cthulhu TRPG in Peace Education for Adults.” JARPS: Japanese Journal of Analog Role-Playing Game Studies 2: RPG at a Distance: Online and Remote Forms of Analog Role-PlayingLink here.